Takeda Kayoko, Arakawa Naoko
Department of Pharmaceutical Education, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University of Science, Sapporo 006-8585, Japan.
School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK.
Pharmacy (Basel). 2020 Dec 31;9(1):6. doi: 10.3390/pharmacy9010006.
The Standards for the Establishment of Universities in Japan were revised; subsequently, the number of schools or universities of pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences increased from 46 in 2002 to 74 in 2016.The pharmacy education programme was also changed from four to six years, which was implemented in 2006. In this study, we provide the comparative results of the first cycle of the third-party accrediting organization, the Japan Accreditation Board for Pharmaceutical Education (JABPE); Methods: The results of the first cycle of all universities or schools of pharmacy assessed by the JABPE from JABPE website were retrieved, and we collated and compared the results based on the 13 areas of the assessment standards; Results: In "improvements", the number of public universities or schools was less than that of private universities or schools, and the number of old private universities or schools was also less than the number of new private universities or schools in all assessment areas.
These results suggest that new universities or schools established since 2003 have not yet established their own quality assurance mechanism within the institutions. We need to review the Japanese pharmacy education system or the assessment criteria for it to bring about essential change.
日本大学设置标准进行了修订；随后，药学院/药学专业大学的数量从2002年的46所增加到2016年的74所。药学教育项目也从四年制改为六年制，并于2006年实施。在本研究中，我们提供了第三方认证组织——日本药学教育认证委员会（JABPE）第一轮认证的比较结果；方法：从JABPE网站检索其评估的所有药学院或大学第一轮认证的结果，并根据评估标准的13个领域对结果进行整理和比较；结果：在“改进”方面，公立药学院或大学的数量少于私立药学院或大学，并且在所有评估领域中，老牌私立药学院或大学的数量也少于新成立的私立药学院或大学。
这些结果表明，2003年以来新成立的大学或学院尚未在机构内部建立起自身的质量保证机制。我们需要重新审视日本药学教育体系或其评估标准，以实现根本性变革。
